Quotes About Attention

I've been fortunate with the kind of work I've done, in terms of quality. But a lot of work didn't get the kind of release and attention that it deserved. And, I feel little let down by our distribution system.

There'll probably be moments in my life where it seems that people will want to camp out on my doorstep, and moments when no one wants to hire me and couldn't be less interested. I've been around the circus, and it'll come and go.

Getting hit on by both genders is such a champagne problem.

Celebrity hits like a bomb.

I'm like most people. We just concentrate on the present. I live right where the film is going through the film projector and it hits the light.

Once you've established yourself with hits that become part of people's lives, then they pretty much always want to see you.

Aioli is jazzy, showy, and a downright attention hog next to chill and classic mayo.

When I do actual sequential work, I really want a story I can get a behind: a story that really holds my attention for, like, the length of what I'll be working on.

When you stop to realize that Abraham Lincoln was probably never seen by more than 400 people in a single evening, and that I can enter over 40 million homes in a single evening due to the power of television, you have to admit the situation is not normal.

I don't want to brag, but I do more homework on the course than any other announcer. I chart the greens to get all the breaks. I walk down into the greenside bunkers. I walk into the fairway bunkers to see whether a player can reach the green from them.

I don't know what to say other than you're really honored another team is looking at you.

I'm 5-foot-5, and I'll wear a big parka and put the hood up, and nobody gives me a second glance.

I feel the life expectancy of a comedian is 30 seconds. If you don't hook an audience in half-a-minute, you're dead.

There are so many different things out there trying to hook our attention, we writers have to be very selective and make certain that it is coming from inside out, not outside in.

Sometimes a writer just needs a hook.

You have to keep the audience glued by hook or crook.

The way people get hooked on fame... it can behave very much like an addiction.

All the media are horrible.

I've always loved playing dress up, so I wear party dresses for anything I'm hosting. I think you honor your guests by paying attention to every detail, and this includes your own appearance.

Paris Hilton

Fame is short-lived, and you're the last to know when you are no longer hot.

I get the celebrity game now - you can go from being hot to fighting to be seen.

Kids just want to have one song. They don't care about a body of work; they don't even care about a whole album - they just want whatever's hot right now. They download that song, and that's it.

In the countries where they don't know me, which is only America, wherever I go, the hotel, the restaurant, the airport, people go, 'Oh, my! What's that?' That's good. That's good, because there is a curiosity there, which is great.